BOSTON — A judge declared a mistrial Tuesday in Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis' medical malpractice lawsuit after a juror collapsed and several doctors — including the two defendants — rushed to his aid.
The juror, an older man, began moaning as he listened to an expert testifying in defense of Massachusetts General Hospital surgeons Charles Ferguson and Richard Hodin.
Weis claims they botched his care after gastric bypass surgery in June 2002.
Judge Charles Spurlock ordered the other jurors out of the courtroom, but some saw Ferguson, Hodin and other doctors who were in the courtroom rush to the collapsed juror's aid.
An attorney for Weis said it was with "great reluctance" that he ask for the mistrial in the case that was expected to go to the jury today.
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